December 19, 1981 - On this Weekend program, MPR’s Rich Dietman talks with Mike Collins, University of Minnesota computer analyst programmer, about home computers. Topics include understanding difference between software and hardware, education courses, and various features. Collins also answers listener questions.
December 18, 1981 - Jan Robinson and Rosemary Martin, co-directors and psychotherapists at Twin Cities Therapy Clinic, answer listeners' questions about coping with the holidays, broadcast live.
November 12, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman presents audio profile within the cockpit of a Republic Airways commercial airline during air traffic controller strike.
June 26, 1981 - Dr. Gough Reinhardt, physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California; and Dr. Frank Barnaby, director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, debate at the Science Town Hall Meeting titled, “Nuclear Weapons Technology: Do We Need It?” The meeting was held at the St. Paul-Ramsey Arts and Science Auditorium and presented guests' differing views of nuclear weapons technology and the value and uses of nuclear science. MPR’s Rich Dietman moderated debate.
June 15, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman describes the scene in south Minneapolis in the aftermath of a tornado passing over Lake St. & Chicago Ave.
May 30, 1981 - Listener response with Dave Durenberger and also Rich Dietman as host.
May 22, 1981 - MPR reporter Rich Dietman details discussions on Veterans Affairs and University of Minnesota sharing hospital facilities and the unlikelihood of merger.
May 13, 1981 - All Things Considered’s Gary Eichten talks with MPR reporter Rich Dietman about University of Minnesota hospital proposal to build largest hospital construction project in state.
March 31, 1981 - MPR’s Rich Dietman interviews St. Paul native Gerry Spiess, who talks about his solo voyage across the Atlantic in a boat he built himself named "Yankee Girl". Spiess also discusses his plans for his next journey with "Yankee Girl", this time across the Pacific ocean with stops in Hawaii, Samoa, and Australia.
January 22, 1981 - Dr. Bevan French, National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s discipline scientist for planetary materials, discusses the space program. Topics include data from Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft, and the new space shuttle program. French also answers listener questions. Dr. French analyzed rocks brought back from the moon. He also helped train NASA Apollo astronauts in geology.